Reel-clamp.



' PATBNTBD 00T. so, 1906.

L. L. BARTLBTT. REEL CLAMP. APPLIon'Iox H1111) 1111115.12', 1906.

WITNESSES: mM/M71@ "mann reel-seat; and it consists in forming wedges UNITED sTATEs PATENT IoEEIoE.

L. BARTLETT, 'OF MNTAGUE CITY, MASSACHUSETTS.

` REEL-CLAMP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Qct. 30, 1906I l Application filed March l2. 1906. Serial No. 305,458.

To a/ZZ whom, itfmay concern:

Be it known that I, LEANDEE L. BARTLETT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Montague City, Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Reel-Clamps, of which the following is a clear, full, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved sliding reel seat or clamp for fishpole-butt which may be readily slid to and fro upon the butt and securely clamped in piace by the mere rotation of a collar hava t eaded internal bore.

The essential features of the invention reside in the sleeve which carries the movable ulpon the outside of the sleeve, which are Afast t ereon, and preferably upon diametrically opposite sides of the sleeve, and in a collar with an internally-threaded bore, preferably threaded for a portion of its depth only, which fits upon a portion of the sleeve provided with lan annular thread. The collar extends forwardly to engage the wedges before mentioned more or less, according to the amount of rotation imparted to the collar,

' and thus toforce the opposite sides of the y sleeve into close engagement with the butt.

A portion of the sleeve is upset outwardly to form the reel-carrying seat. The butt is provided with usual longitudinal ribs, with which grooves on the inner surface of the sleeve eng In the accompanyin drawings,.Figure 1 is a side elevation of a fgishpole-butt provided with' my im roved reel seat and clamp. Fig. 2 is a view, rawn to an enlarged scale, on line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional view on line 3 3, Fig. 2, with clamp and sleeve removed from the butt. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the sleeve with the collar removed.v Fig. 5 is a view on line 5 5, Fig. '1, drawn to the scaleof the preceding three figures.

As shown in the drawings, 1 is the handle of a fish ole-butt, provided with a cylindrical tube 2 or the seating of the reel, having a stationary reel-seat 3 at one end and having longitudinal ribs 4 and 5 upon its surface for the guidance of the sleeve to be now described. The sleeve 6 is tubular and has a portion 7 upset from its cylindrical surface to provide a seat or socket for the engagement of the reel. Wedges 8 and 9, preferably diametrically opposite, are permanently secured to the'sleeve is in place on the part 2 the sleeve will be prevented from rotation While free to slide longitudinally. The ring 12 is formed with a knurled outer surface, while its inner bore is threaded for half its depth and smooth for the other half, the ring being inserted upon the sleeve so that the smooth half lies over the wedges 8 and 9 more or less.

It will be readily seen, particularly with reference to Fig. 1, that the sleeve may be moved to any desired position on the part 2, and then a suflicient'rotation of the ring 12 will cause the wedges Sand 9 to be moved toward each other to compress the sleeve upon opposite sides against the part 2, and thus firmly clamp it in position.

What I claim is- 1. In combination with a fishpole-butt having a non-rotatable slidable reel-seat sleeve, a wedge formed solid upon the outside of said sleeve and projecting longitudinally to the bore of the sleeve, a threaded portion on the sleeve and a collar with a threaded bore engagin said threaded portion.

2. In com ination with a fishpole-butt having a non-rotatable slidable reel-seat sleeve, a wedge formed solid with said sleeve, a threaded portion on the sleeve and a collar with a threaded bore engaging said threaded portion, said collar having part of its bore smooth on that side adjacent to the wedge.

3. In combination with a fishpole-buttvhaving longitudinal projections, a sleeve with grooves fitting the projections, Wedges fast on diametrically opposite sides of the sleeve, a threaded portion on the sleeve, an enlarged rear end on the sleeve, a collar having a partly-smooth bore and a partly-threaded bore, the smooth part adjacentto the wedges, the threaded part toward the en'- larged rear end, a part of the sleeve upset away from the buttv to form a seat for the reel.

4. In combination with a fishpole-butt having a non-rotatable slidable reel-seat sleeve, a wedge formed solid upon the outside of said sleeve and projecting longitudinally to the bore of the sleeve, a threaded Signed at Montague City, Massachusetts, portion on the sleeve and a collar With a this 8th day of March, 1906. threaded bore engaging said threaded portion and a lange upon the end of the Sleeve he- LEANDER L BARTLETT' 5 tween which ange and the Wedge said collar Witnesses:

is free to rotate being held Jfrom removal CHARLES W, SCHULER, from the sleeve by the llange. l ROBERT E. KELES. 

